[Caml-list] O'Reilly book (was poll - need for a good introductory OCaml book)

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Jacques Garrigue <garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote:
>
> The appendix of the book is explicitly about ocaml-2.99. Lots of
> things changed since, [...]
>
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Michael Schuerig <schuerig@acm.org> wrote:
>
> Admittedly, I haven't read the book, but my understanding is that this
> book is based on OCaml 2.x. Is it really such a good idea to publish it
> as is when OCaml has been at version 3.x for quite some time now?
Wouldn't it be possible to update the English version of book for Caml
3.06 ? It is possible to do it while preserving a way to typeset the
original version with macros like \ifCamlVersion{2.x}{...} ... Of
course one should start by asking the authors whether they agree, then
a group of people (I volunteer) could check the code and report the
things to correct. A useful addition would also be to update the java
code that displays the solutions to the exercises to work with mozilla
(only a matter of hours I guess if the LaTeX code is clean). IMHO,
this needs to be done for the readers to use with pleasure this great
book.
Please let me know if I can do something.
ChriS
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